Six entrusted with carrying out serial blasts in Patna: Police

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Last Updated: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 14:13 hrs

Motihari: Six persons were entrusted with carrying out the serials blasts in Patna during BJP's rally last Sunday, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) has revealed to interrogators, a senior police officer said.

The IM operative, Tabish Nyaz alias Arshad Ansari, who was arrested from Alaula in East Champaran on Tuesday also told interrogators that the six were to assemble at his village after the explosions to work out further plans, district police chief Vinay Kumar told reporters here today.

Tabish disclosed that he had talked on phone to IM operative Imtiyaz, the prime accused, from Dhurba area in Ranchi, hours before the explosions at the Gandhi Maidan and other places on Sunday, the SSP said.

He also said that Tabish was initially picked up from his village after his phone number and that of other associates were found scribbled on a piece of paper in Imtiyaz's pocket.

Tabish was a highly educated man who ran a coaching institute in Ranchi, the SSP said, adding, that more IM operatives could have taken refuge in district.